Author and Stronger Girl Coffee founder Stacy Smith Rogers discovered the power of community in a unique story of entrepreneurship, grief and encouraging others to embrace their stories with strength, faith and boldness. Her former business, The Paddock Coffee + Eats + Gatherings, earned the 2021 Tourism Business of the Year award, just two years after opening in the midst of the pandemic and divorce. It became a source of hope and an example of perseverance for thousands of guests. In December of 2022, she sold the coffee shop to a non-profit that is continuing her hospitality model and brand as well as the mission to serve and inspire others. Her brand, Stronger Girl, is brewed for belonging and is a community where every woman's story is safe, and her strength is seen. Her signature retreat experience is the Stronger Girl Glampout which she hosts in Red River Gorge, Kentucky. Additionally, she authors a magazine on Substack -- spoiler alert, it's called Stronger Girl.

You can find more about Stacy and Stronger Girl at www.strongergirlcoffee.com and at stacysmithrogers.com. The link to the JMB Living journals. Here's a link to LoveNotes! anthology. The Rejection Palace, An Act of Recognition. Listen to the Stronger Girl playlist on Spotify

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Joan Schoettler has surrounded herself with children’s literature, sharing it with her sons when they were young, inviting children she taught to step into the world of stories, and teaching children’s literature at California State University in Fresno. In addition to spending time with family and friends, she enjoys reading, gardening, and traveling. Joan lives with her husband in central California. Visit her online at joanschoettler.com. You can preorder Books Travel the World here: https://a.co/d/4q0mqgH

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Hannah grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia but wound up in South Jersey after falling in love with her complete opposite. She's got all the degrees of a "serious" fiction writer but only smiles when she's writing romance.

She lives with her husband and two daughters in a picturesque town outside of Philadelphia where she enjoys reading in all genres, especially the spicy ones, and confusing people with her half-Southern-half-Northern accent.

Find out more about Hannah at www.hannahjordanauthor.com Find her Peace Falls series on Amazon here https://a.co/d/fGW5Jtx

Her book For You I'd Break will be FREE June 19th to 22nd. Be sure to grab it!!

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Get signed up for the Book Sales School Summit here: https://katcaldwell.com/booksalessummit2025

If you're a fiction teacher or coach you might be interested in the Fiction Teachers Summit. Sign up here:https://katcaldwell.com/fiction-teachers-summit

Rhonda Douglas is starting her Book Finishers Bootcamp July 18th. It's a ver good way to get ahead in your writing this summer: https://katcaldwell.com/book-finishers

We're talking about 13 ways to keep writing this summer. All the links I promised are below.

Check out Jessie Cunniffe's Book Blurb Magic course. It really is magic! https://katcaldwell.com/book-blurb-course

Books: Writing Archetypal Character Arcs, Creating Character Arcs, 2000-10000, The Science of Storytelling, The Heroine's Journey, Three Story Method, Story Genius, Wired for Story.

Be sure to fill your ebook reader this summer as well. Get Across the English Channel from me or from Amazon or Kobo.

Page Turner Awards is an inclusive writing and book awards with one goal – to change the lives of as many writers as possible. The team at Page Turner Awards passionately believes that talented writers can be from any background, age, race, religion, or interest. To find out more and enter the awards go to https://bit.ly/Kat-Caldwell-2025 If you decide to enter use the discount code: 25KATCALDWELL10 And let me know! I would love to cheer you on!

Link to the contest guides that Paula talks about in the interview: https://pageturnerawards.com/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=4

Paula's writing boot camps: https://ipaulasheridan.com/authors-binge-factor

Check out the bonus episode with my audiobook teaser: https://katcaldwell.com/teaser-AEC

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Want o make your own audiobooks? Go to https://spoken.press and use the code word PENCILS to make an account!

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Esther thought of herself as a reluctant reader until she read John Irving’s, The World According to Garp in her teens. From that day on, she discovered that she loves books! These days, she mostly listens to audiobooks.

Esther’s writing career grew from the stories she told her children. Book after book poured out of her as she began to put the words down on paper. She also shares her deep knowledge of storytelling, Judaism, and faith through teaching and speaking work (connect with Esther here to learn more). Find her Desert Song Trilogy here: https://www.esthergoldenberg.com/books

Join me at the Spark to Story Summit: https://katcaldwell.com/spark-to-story

Listen to the Across the English Channel teaser: https://katcaldwell.com/audio-teaser-aec

You can order Across the English Channel from Amazon, Kobo or directly from me.

This week I'm so excited to bring an interview with Spoken to you! They are truly changing the audiobook industry and I want you to be part of it! I've always wanted to have audiobooks, but it's been so far out of reach due to price for me, but not any more! Spoken Studio is the first purpose-built workflow empowering authors breaking the sound barrier. Spoken deeply analyzes each work and character to surface, or design from scratch, the perfect voices. These voices, whether of voice actors or character-generated, are used to craft the perfect single or multi-cast narration. Once a project is narrated, intelligent mastering and publishing tools make distribution a breeze.

Check them out here https://www.spoken.press/ and use code PENCILS to start making your own audios! Listen to my short story, Chilled Wine, here: https://ihave.spoken.press/p/QVRdJVQYXm1

Pre-order Across the English Channel here: https://www.amazon.com/Across-English-Channel-Stepping-Book-ebook/dp/B0F6QGS6M2/

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